Edward Leamington Nichols

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Name Edward Nichols		Fields Physics

Institutions Johns Hopkins UniversityThomas Edison laboratoryCentral University of KentuckyUniversity of KansasCornell UniversityAAASAmerican Physical SocietyNIST Doctoral advisor Johann Benedict Listing Other academic advisors Herman von HelmholtzGustav Kirchhoff Died November 10, 1937, West Palm Beach, Florida, United States Books Cathodo-luminescence and the Luminescence of Incandescent Solids Education Cornell University, University of Gottingen Awards Elliott Cresson Medal, Rumford Prize, Frederic Ives Medal
Doctoral students Ernest Fox Nichols Notable awards Elliott Cresson Medal

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Edward Leamington Nichols (14 September 1854 – November 10, 1937) was an American physicist.

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Biography

He was born of American parentage at Leamington, England, and received his education at Cornell University, graduating in 1875. After Studying at Leipzig, Berlin, and Göttingen (Ph.D., 1879) he was appointed fellow in physics at Johns Hopkins. He then spent some time in the Thomas Edison laboratory at Menlo Park, N. J., and subsequently became professor of physics and chemistry in the Central University of Kentucky (1881), professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas (1883), and professor of physics at Cornell University (1887). He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1907) and of the American Physical Society (1907–08), and served as a member of the visiting committee of the United States Bureau of Standards. The degrees of LL.D. and Sc.D. were conferred on Professor Nichols by the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College respectively. He was the author of several college textbooks on physics. In 1927 he was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal. In 1929 he was awarded the Frederic Ives Medal by the OSA. He was adviser of numerous outstanding scientists in Cornell University including Ernest Nichols, Arthur Foley, and Rolla Roy Ramsey. His PhD adviser was Johann Benedict Listing in Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

Writings

A laboratory manual of physics and applied electricity v. 1 (New York : Macmillan, 1894)

A laboratory manual of physics and applied electricity v. 2 (New York : Macmillan, 1894)

The galvanometer : a series of lectures ( New York : McIlroy & Emmet, 1894)

The elements of physics. A college text-book v. 1. Mechanics and heat (New York : Macmillan, 1896)

The elements of physics. A college text-book v. 2. Electricity and magnetism (New York : Macmillan, 1896)

The elements of physics. A college text-book v. 3. Light and sound (New York : Macmillan, 1896)

The outlines of physics: an elementary text-book (New York : Macmillan, 1897)

Questions and exercises to be used in connection with Outlines of physics, an elementary text-book (New York : Macmillan, 1897)

Studies in luminescence ( Washington DC, Carnegie Institution, 1912)

Fluorescence of the uranyl salts ( Washington DC, Carnegie Institution, 1919)

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "^{article name needed}". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

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